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Governments, academics, humanitarians, military leaders, and activists from across Asia-Pacific will gather in Tokyo, Japan, this week to draw out lessons from decades of humanitarian response in the region as part of the lead-up to the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit.
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Would you rebuild your home in an area that you knew was unsafe? Or would you move your family to safety, even if that meant losing your source of income?
This is the dilemma that countless families who lost their homes to Typhoon Haiyan now face. Across the Typhoon Haiyan-affected corridor, over 1.1...

Six months after Typhoon Haiyan swept through central Philippines, recovery efforts are still underway. The humanitarian community continues to focus on restoring people's homes and sources of income for a long-lasting recovery. But the progress remains fragile with millions of people still requiring...

The checkpoint is a ten-minute drive west from the bustling centre of Zamboanga, a city of 807,000 people in the southern Philippines. Beyond it lies a ghost town comprising Rio Hondo and neighboring barangays, political units that are roughly equivalent to a neighborhood in Philippine cities.
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At first glance, the people of Tacloban in the Central Philippines and Bangui in the Central African Republic (CAR) have little in common. They are separated by continents and oceans, and share no common language or cultural heritage.
This changed at the end of 2013. Both cities were affected by massive...